Slide loop



Feb. 14, 1950 H. ELWELL- 2,492,401

SLIDE LOOP Filed June-14, 1945,

Patented Feb. 14, 1950 UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE George Henry Elwcl'l, New Haven, Conn, assignor to Eastern Tool and Manufacturing Company, Bloomfield, NrJ a corporation 1 Application June 14, 1945, Serial No. 599,477

1' Claim. (CL 24- 73) This invention relates to slide loops, the physical combination of a slide, for mounting upon a strap and made adjustable along its length, and a button loop adapted to be clipped over a button carried by a garment to be thereby supported.

The objects of the invention are to provide the slide portion of the device with means whereby the end of a strap inserted therein may be looped and positioned in an upward direction; to provide such means of strap positioning as a part of the binding element for securing the device against sliding thereon; and to provide a rapid and convenient means for releasing the device from a fixed position upon a strap.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device; Figure 2 is similar to the previous figure excepting that looped wings are illustrated outstretched before being spacedly folded rearwardly backward; Figure 3 is a side elevation of the device as illustrated by the Fig. l and illustrating in outline a fully inserted strap portion therein; Figure 4 is a top view of an upper cross-bar and folded looped wings, and Figure 5 is a modified form of top view of device illustrating abutting looped brackets.

Referring more particularly to the accompanying drawing the slide loop comprises a wire button loop portion in one plane, including the side bars 5 and lower cross-bar sections 1 and 8, each integral with a lower end of a side bar 5, and a pair of resilient arms H, together providing the button receiving loop ID. A cross-bar 9 is supported at each end by a side bar 5.

A pair of strap-holding brackets I 2 are each integral with an upper portion of one of the side bars 5 and together providing, in a plane parallel with, and rearwardl spaced from, the plane of the button loop portion of the slide loop, wire loops 2 and 3 extending toward, and ending at l2 spaced from, one another in relative alignment. The upper bar of each of the loops 2 and 3 is a rearwardly bent continuance of the wire of the cross-bar I, and the lower bar of each of said loops 2 and 3 is a bent continuance of a side bar 5. The wire loops 2 and 3 provide brackets defining one wall of a vertical strap-passage IZA.

An upper cross-bar I, having ends integral with said wire loops 2 and 3 is positioned spacedly above, and in the plane of, the button loop portion of the device, and provides the other wall defining the vertical strap-passage.

bar I at either end to provide a portion of the loops 2 and 3 with the side bars 5 depending therefrom and the side bars 5 supporting the cross-bar 9; the cross-bar sections 18 integral with the lower ends of the side bars 5 and the pair of resilient arms depending from the crossbar sections 1 and 8 to provide the button-receiving loop l0.

With the above described structure in a common plane, as illustrated by the Figure 2, the bracket loops 2 and 3 can then be bent rearwardly back upon themselves in spaced relation to said common plane, as illustrated b the Figures 3 and 4.

In use in connection with an inserted strap, as illustrated by the Figure 3, a strap end is inserted from the rear of the device to within the strap loop 6 above the intermediate bar 9, then from the front of the device back through the strap loop 6 below the intermediate bar 9. The upper portion of the strap S and the end portion SA of the strap S are relatively placed fiat together and thus marginally inserted within the spaces I2A behind the strap holding brackets l2 in strap binding relation to one another and to the device.

In releasing the device from any fixed position upon a strap, it is necessary only to remove the two-ply positioned straps from within the spaces l2A behind the brackets l2.

If desired, the companion loops 2 and 3, providing the brackets l2 of Figure 4, may each be lengthened so that they may abut as illustrated by the Figure 5, one with the other, thereby providing an absolutely enclosed passage I2B for the vertical insertion from the top of an end of the strap S behind the brackets |2C-then inserted from the front within the strap loop 6 below the intermediate bar 9-and finally returned upwardly behind the brackets I20 and behind the strap S inserted within the passage IZB from the top. The abutting brackets l 20 and IZC prevent any accidental release of the strap S when becoming slimsy in the washing process.

I claim:

A wire slide loop, the physical combination of button receiving and button retaining portions thereof in an upright plane with strap holding portion including a strap passage parallel to said upright plane, said slide loop comprising a onepiece wire formation of which a central straight portion provides a cross-bar of said holding portion, a pair of relatively spaced rigid end loops extending toward one another in a plane perpendicular to said upright plane and provided by 3 spacedly forming backwardly both extremities of said straight portion, a second pair of rigid end loops in said upright plane and provided by spacedly forming forwardly said wire extremities, each of said second pair having a wire portion in common with one of said loops in said perpendicular plane, side bars each integrally depending from wire of said second pair of loops, cross bar sections parallel with said central straight portion of wire and extending toward one another from said side bars, the down I wardly extending extremities of wire from said-,

cross-bar sections providing oppositely positioned resilient arms of said button receiving and retaining portions of said slide loop, said arms terminating in relatively movable free Wire ends of said one-piece formation, and a separate straight piece of wire having each extremity.

looped around one of said side bars.

GEORGE HENRY ELWELL.

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